WikiTribune

The news is broken, but we're going to fix it.

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The news is broken, but we're going to fix it.

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WikiTribune is a news wiki where volunteers write and curate articles about widely publicised news by proofreading, fact-checking, suggesting possible changes, and adding sources from other, usually long established outlets.

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Hunt Pokemon

Love the initiative. But there's some dangerous potential for manipulation as well. Articles on Wikipedia have often been changed by a select group of angry people after events ( eg: After football matches, referee pages being edited with not-too-kind facts ) Let's say an article criticizes a country or group, what's to prevent that country or group to get people to edit the article?

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9yr ago

@sabrisjourney Hi Sabri! Wikipedia adds page protection to articles which often face vandalism. This will add edits from unregistered users to a review quota which is reviewed by Wikipedians before going live to the public. In addition, bots help revert vandalism. Please note that Wikitribune is not associated with the Wikimedia Foundation. My understanding is that all edits to Wikitribune will be reviewed by in-house journalists. If you have any other questions regarding vandalism on Wikipedia, you can contact me via my talk page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us...).

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9yr ago

@sabrisjourney The ability to correct would ultimately fix this, I think. It's one thing if someone reads something wrong, but another if they use that false info to try to "prove" their point to someone. They wouldn't be able to once corrected. That's probably as good as we can expect at this point.

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9yr ago

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@askdaylen It seems this was posted on hacker news and generated a lot of heated debate. [1] Note that they want to operate under British law, where libel law favors the subject. They have an indemnification clause, so their volunteers could be compelled to reimburse WikiTribune if WikiTribune loses a libel suit Is this true?

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9yr ago

As a journalism student this is extremely exciting. No one in the news field really has any idea of how to fix things, but this feels like an attempt worth making. Other sites have been simply shifting little bits of the plans they've been using for years, or have been implementing interface hostile popups —which hasn't really hasn't proven itself as a solution. Even if WikiTribune doesn't go anywhere, or the community portion ends up being toxic, this is someone trying with a fresh approach in a field that desperately needs someone to.

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9yr ago

This is really great news (no pun intended)! The world really needs this kind of transparency to combat propaganda. I hope it doesn't turn into a propaganda tool itself or a huge raging comment thread. I'm confused by the 1/10 journalists hired. Are they saying they want to hire 9 more journalists?

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9yr ago

@hallodom Yes, Wikitribune would like to start with 10 full-time journalists, in addition to the volunteer community.

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9yr ago

@jimmy_wales ; How do you compare & contrast @Medium's new subscription-model with @Wikitribune? Are they in completely different zones? If no, what are the overlaps? Differences?

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9yr ago

@mrdignitty @jimmy_wales @medium @wikitribune Hi Jonathan! All of the content produced by Wikitribune will be free, the page is for donations. In addition, Medium posts are based on opinion, and Wikitribune posts will be based on fact. Also, Wikitribune posts can be edited by anyone (however they are reviewed before being published). On the other hand, Medium is just a long form version of Twitter. Hope this helps!

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9yr ago

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Another great video by @lonelysandwich:

@jimmy_wales, founder of Wikipedia, and team are taking on fake, clickbait news with a hybrid wiki + journalism model. We need this today more than ever before. It reminds me a bit of @mg's Circa (RIP) but with more of a crowdsourced bent.

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9yr ago

@rrhoover @lonelysandwich @jimmy_wales @mg Good luck! Fake news needs to disappear. And fast.

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9yr ago

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At last, some evolution. Awesome project. Anyone still want Snopes to do this instead of Jimmy? Thought not.

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9yr ago

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I really wish tech folks would stop trying to fix things they know nothing about. All real journalism is "Fact based" that's a total misnomer. Unless a source refuses to be identified, sources are listed in real journalism. This kind indiscriminate flag burning of institutions is what creates a market for fake news and dumbs down readers so they can't distinguish between real and fake. The list of advisors at the bottom of the site including Lily Cole and zero people who are actually practicing professional journalists highlights the kind of well intentioned ignorance of people like Pepsi's marketing team and Uber's #undelete geniuses.

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9yr ago

@peterfreeby I see this working alongside journalism, not trying to creep in on it. If journalism alone could fix the problem, it already would have. Tech companies are forced to deal with this issue because they run the platforms.

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9yr ago

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